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This week’s A Most Fetching Friday 14 features the fall inspired focal combination of fire, foul, warmth and comfort.
Anthropologie
Inside Out Peanut Butter and Nutella Banana S’mores
Benjamin Dhong – House Beautiful
Design Sponge
I hope you have a fall inspired most fetching Friday.
This week’s Fetching Friday 12 is a visual shout-out to members of my furnish, tile, feature, FOLK, and photography circle of business and social media friends.
Habersham Home
I hope you have a most fetching Friday.
This Fetching Friday 6 features setting colors, fashionable words, traditional English style fit for fall, ooh la la in the kitchen, and a visual testament to a love of antiques.
fetch·ing
ˈfeCHiNG/
adjective
adjective: fetching
attractive.
synonyms: attractive, appealing, sweet, pretty, good-looking, lovely, delightful, charming, prepossessing, captivating, enchanting, irresistible
Being optimistic is always in fashion.
Be Optimistic Felt Badge – Best Made Company
Open the window and let the air of fall weather in is coming to a cool morning and crisp afternoon near you soon.
Leila Lindholm’s fabulous French inspired kitchen complete with eclectic extravagance with the accent mark on love the look!
A fascinating combination.
Never underestimate the decorative presence, power and inspired influence brought forth by the use of antiques and eccentricities in design and decor. A point well made in the home of Houston antiques dealer Kay O’Toole as featured in Lonny Magazine.
I hope you have a most fetching Friday 6.
This Fetching Friday 2 features antiques, words in the key of life, black and white statement pieces and an undeniable pop of pucker red in iconic Hollywood glamour via “The Look”, Lauren Bacall.
Small Space Decorating via House Beautiful – photo by Jonny Valiant
Hollywood in Kodachrome by David Wills, Stephen Schmidt
Gorgeous entry in fall splendor via The Scout Guide
Transitional Kitchen by New York Interior Designers & Decorators David Scott Interiors
Stunning Statement via Simplified Bee
Through the Years via Sweet as Candy
I hope yours is a most fetching Friday.
fetch·ing
/ˈfeCHiNG/
adjective
adjective: fetching
attractive.
synonyms: attractive, appealing, sweet, pretty, good-looking, lovely, delightful, charming,prepossessing, captivating, enchanting, irresistible
Places In The Home is an interior design and decorating show and tell. Goodness knows I have met the tell quota, so let’s concentrate on the show part of all this with a new blog series, A Most Fetching Friday. Architecture, interiors, design, antiques, travel and food will be the subjects featured in fetching Friday images. Enjoy this debut collection of fetching Friday images of eye-catching features found down Southern states way.
Traditional Kitchen by Knoxville Architects & Building Designers Home Design Elements LLC
Dering Antiques – Atlanta, Georgia via Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
Foxglove Antiques & Galleries – Atlanta, Georgia via Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles
St. Lawrence in the Vieux Carré – New Orleans, Louisiana
Lemon Ice Box Pie – Food & Wine
Dishing with Texas-born Actor and Director Bill Paxton via Southern Living
Main Street Revival – Garden & Gun
I hope you have a most fetching Friday.
In an ever-changing world it’s difficult to stay on top of what’s on trend. Think electronic gadgets. About the time you program, master and become proficient with the latest and greatest electronic gadget of choice here comes the newest version down the pike. Does this principle apply to decorating? Nah! Accents and accessories with timeless and classic appeal make sure of that.
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It is my personal and professional opinion that a look, style or decor choice will at sometime in its life be in need of at the very least a freshening up. That’s the heart and soul of decorating. Tastes and decor likes, loves and gotta have it choices change over time. A tweak here and a trend there guarantees it, but it’s the individual tastes and decor choices at the core of it all that makes it a statement of quality and personal style.
And that look, my fellow decoristas, is never over! Embrace, be proud of, and by all means…
“Black and White” by Three Dog Night makes a profound statement in many ways, but today it struck a black and white color combination extraordinaire chord.
I’m of the strong opinion that all color begins and ends with black and white.
“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors…
for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of
green and red, for instance.”
– Vincent van Gogh
Traditional Home
Put the two together and the black and white color combination extraordinaire takes command of design and space.
My Domaine ~ DISC Interiors
If you are contemplating going with a black and white décor but wonder about the absence of a pop of color, take a look at the following examples of black and white done right.
Maura McEvoy for House Beautiful
Williams Sonoma Home ~ PaperCity Magazine ~ Shabby Slips
Don’t confuse choosing the design darling color combination of black and white with boring, calculated, unimaginative or stale.
Selecting a black and white color palette clears the cobwebs of color confusion.
What?
Let me explain.
Have you ever been totally overwhelmed in the selection process or execution of color?
I’ve selected colors with the best of them, and I can testify to the fact too much of a good and colorful thing can confuse the living color out of me.
The places and spaces in our homes speak to us in either a whisper or a roar to the intent and result of our choices.
Shawn Broaddus and Mike Hammersmith
Of interest is a recent article referencing how in business and everyday life we should always strive to be inspired, continually educated, and never lose sight of the fire in the belly.
Jonathan Adler Vice Love Canister
Bolder Color Palette Framed Canvas Art Print
Odd as it may seem, the color combination of black and white accomplishes these points.
Simply Put – Caracole
Decoristas seem to never tire of studying new and inspiring design applications.
Inspiration is everywhere.
Building upon a standard of design is what keeps it relevant as well as timeless.
As decades go by, fads and trends fade from favor.
Duncan 1-Light Black Pendant and Rod with White Shade
Does a certain period, style or color continue to strike your fancy, but you hesitate with the choice asking yourself the question, “Is this still used today?”
I think we all have.
Fear not.
Timeless to say the least, the presence of black and white in interior design and interior decorating choices proves as stunning today as it was sixty years ago.
Ebanista
Proven decorative ability is ever present when the design and decor color power duo is at play. A traditional decor favorite regarded as a contemporary darling and a modern marvel, black and white is a timeless color combination able to stand strong as the sole choice of color for a space.
This classic color combination choice removes palette doubt and eliminates any chance of the color combination extraordinaire burning out or fading away into decorating obscurity.
